Los Angeles in numbers, October 2026
- galleries on On View’s map of Los Angeles
- 148
- and 25 museums
- galleries from elsewhere with a space in the city
- 16
- 26 at the end of 2024
- square feet in the leading galleries’ spaces
- 361,000
- 418,000 at the end of 2024
- spent on museum buildings opened since 2015
- $2.4bn
- $1.7bn of it opened in 2026
- the auction record for an artist of the city
- $90.3m
- David Hockney, 2018
- of the top 100 contemporary artists have a gallery here
- 71
- 20 at the end of 2010
Sources: On View’s listings for Los Angeles; galleries’ and museums’ announcements and press reports (see How we counted); Christie’s, via CBS News.
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